Monday, March 31, 2014

More Americans moving to New York

New York is still attracting those who yearn to breathe free — but now our immigrants are often American. The city’s population gains are due in part to “domestic migrants” who flock here, according to city records.

The push from other regions comes as arrivals of foreign immigrants have declined. The number of Americans who moved to New York City has increased from around 60,000 in 2000 to 80,000 in 2010, Joseph Salvo, director of the City Planning Department’s Population Division, said. These homegrown immigrants skew younger than the traditional non-American newcomers and tend to live in “non-family households,” either alone or with roommates.

“Aspiring young people are coming to the city, seeking out opportunity,” Salvo said.

Among them is Claire Bunkers, 21, an aspiring human rights worker, who moved here in 2012.

“There’s more opportunity here,” said the Santa Ana, Calif., native, who hopes to work at the United Nations. Bunkers, who lives in Ridgewood, Queens, first fell for big-city life at age 11.

“After the first time I saw New York, that was it,” she said. “It was the coolest place in the world. We stayed in a suite in a hotel. We ate Indian food.”

We always get yuppies here. Why can't we just get non yuppies? BUT atleast the yuppies speak english. I'm actually glad to hear that foreigners are declining. I feel as if I don't live in America. Some days I would give everything I own just to hear people who speak English in this city. I hurry home from work everyday. Because all day long, I work with Hispanics who refuse to speak English In my job even though they've been told by my boss to stop speaking Spanish. Then I take the seven train home to hear more Spanish and Chinese and Koreans screaming all over the place on the train just talking on their damn cell phones.

Don't like to be the one to burst your bubbles youngsters, this is not the NYC of your daddies and mommies, and unless your mommies and daddies are your meal ticket, you don't mind shacking up with several roommates in a small 2 bedroom apartment in some completely overpriced area or providing "services" on Craigs List, this is not the place for you. The art/theatre scene is a joke, there are no more David Mamets, Basquiats, etc. Broadway is nothing but jukebox musicals, Marvel Comic characters, mediocre plays filled with celebrities and uninspired art. Off-Broadway is no longer cutting edge, but a safe haven for those who cannot afford to mount a overpriced Broadway production. The city is pretty much a huge mega chain, with 7-Elevens, Olive Gardens, Red Lobsters and all the other dreck to make you feel at home, but you will be paying a hell of a lot more for that bland pasta soaked in heavy sauces, if you can afford that.

It is all about the money here and selling your soul. And this time the "starving artists" really means that. Hell, you pretty much can remove the artists, it is now just called "Starving Fill in the blank".

Glad I came here when I did, but don't let that stop you from coming here, even though there are plenty of other places in this country and other countries, that you can fulfill your dreams a hell of a lot cheaper with a better quality of life.

But who am I, just an older version of you who came here before the city lost it's way I became a realist.

But go for it. Beats another group of low-class third world immigrants to reek havoc.

Stories like this are click-bait for the gentrification issue, of course--it's guaranteed to rouse the public in some way around the issues of the arts, hipsters, trust funds, bad development, etc. (often for good reason).

The thing is that there are plenty of transplants (like myself) who are neither the recipients of an inheritance, nor "starving," but are rather somewhere in between the two, working a job and doing creative work on the side--and quite contentedly.

Modern city life is not always so simplistic, you know, even though the news outlets love to rouse all of you with stories of naive "artsy" do-gooders hell bent on changing the world. Maybe the real issue is the trite narrative about them being advanced by the Daily News!

Well there apparently were a bunch of Bushwick residents that showed up to a recent community board meeting offering advice about how to prevent gentrification. Which is pretty funny since they are the ones that gentrified their own neighborhood and can't afford to live there anymore. They're also the ones that support other gentrification projects like the Knockdown Center.

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